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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us200062by. Event ids that are associated: us200062by. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.01 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -71.5944° West, latitude -30.0656° South, depth = 21.01 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/06/16 / 2016-06-06 13:21:58 / June 6, 2016 @ 1:21 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:21:58 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Vicuña, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.5944° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.0656° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-06 13:21:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-06 13:55:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.13	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	466	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.341	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us200062by	Id of event.
Event Code	200062by	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200062by,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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